Haji Bakr

Samir al-Khlifawi (died January 2014) was a commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during the Iraqi Civil War. He was killed in the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Samir al-Khlifawi was a Colonel of the Iraqi Army who worked on weapons development under Saddam Hussein, and he later joined al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) after the United States occupied Iraq in the Iraq War. Known as "Haji Bakr", he took part in the insurgency against the USA and other MNFI occupation forces. He was later arrested by the US Army and held at Camp Bucca, where he met other al-Qaeda leaders Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, and Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi. He rose to become a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), and in 2010 he organized an internal purge to leave Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of the ISI. Haji Bakr later became the major leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the Syrian Civil War, and he was killed in Tal Rifaat by the Syrian Martyrs' Brigade in January 2014.